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Media awards revamped
MEDIA MONITORING: Members of the judging panel, from left: front -- Chris Rann, Amanda
Blair, Mel Mansell; back -- Jenny Brinkworth, Ben Macmahon, Kelly Clappis, Bunty Parsons and
Michael Smyth. Absent: Rebecca DiGirolamo and Helen McCabe.
Members of the public are being
invited to nominate outstanding
work by South Australian
journalists for the 2013 Catholic
Archbishop of Adelaide Media
Citations.
In a major break from tradition, the
Archdiocese has opened up the
nomination process to the wider
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professionals has been assembled
and will be on the lookout for works
of excellence over coming months.
The panel includes News Limited
State Editorial Director Mel Mansell,
Women's Weekly editor-in-chief
Helen McCabe, media personality
Amanda Blair, Channel Nine
Executive Producer Kelly Clappis,
ABC Drive Time host Michael
Smyth, public relations expert
Christopher Rann, freelance writer
and communications consultant
Bunty Parsons, photographer
Ben Macmahon, Southern Cross
editor Jenny Brinkworth and senior
journalist Rebecca Di Girolamo.
Under the new awards process,
any individual or group can
nominate a work of journalism
for the various categories (print
-- metropolitan and regional/
community, visual broadcast, radio,
online/digital and photography)
via the online entry form at www.
adelaide.catholic.org.au
Posters will be sent to media
outlets and senior staff will be
asked to nominate their journalists'
best work while business and
community leaders will also
be encouraged to promote the
awards.
Archbishop Wilson said it was time
to reinvigorate the awards which
have been extremely successful
since they were introduced in 1990.
"With the media landscape
changing dramatically, we need
to find new ways of promoting
fairness, accuracy and excellence
in reporting," he said.
For more information, visit
www.adelaide.catholic.org.au/
news-and-events.
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